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Eucharistic Thanksgiving

Liturgies of St. James and St. Mark

For all baptized believers –
There is no reason that any believer in Jesus Christ can not with his house church or community church or even by himself receive the real presence of the Lord in the Lord’s Eucharist. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Eucharist, He established it, not men. St. Paul, in the following, when he speaks of the chalice of devils and the table of devils, is refering to pagan religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism etc. and pagan practices such as abound in the catholic charismatic movement and all over TBN television: he is telling us that we can have no part in them and receive the Lord’s Eucharist.

The following warning must be obeyed by the faithful, as it always has been by faithful Catholics: The chalice of benediction which we bless. is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?
For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread. -1 Cor. x. 16, 17.
You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of devils.-1 Cor. x. 21.

Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.-1 Cor. xi. 27-29.

They therefore that received his word, were baptized; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.
And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles, and in the communication of the breaking of bread, and in prayers.-Acts ii. 41, 42.

And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow: and he continued his speech until midnight.-Acts xx. 7.

The following are suggested, very ancient (going back to the first century), Eucharistic prayers. Be sure to keep going at the end of this section (Liturgies of St. James and St. Mark) and pray Christ’s Words and the Invocation of the Holy Spirit ( The Anaphora) and the Didache which is where you will receive communion – the real presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the bread and cup. The bread can be purchased from a variety of sources that supply hosts to churches and the wine should be red wine (unsweetened) and mixed at the time of communion half and half with water. If you want to, you may skip down to the Didache and start there; make sure you do all that is there up to and including the amen at the + (cross) there. God bless!